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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 327, 11 January 1911, Page 3

People have mors than once spoken of Lord Kitchener as an Irishman. Cut this in r.ot so. He was born in the Emerald Isle, it is true, but his mother was a daughter of the Rev. Dr Chevallier, of Aspall, and his father wasn't a "Paddy" either. Wiien his father, Colonel Kitchener, left the army he decided to settle in Ireland—and it is m Gunsborough Villa, County Kerry, that this the most -famous of his four sons was bom, on June 2-iih, ISSO. He was christened "Horatio Herbert." The quiet, dignified manner in which Mr Thomas Becchain controlled the orchestra during the production of "Elektra" merely by gestures led to this master of music termed "the man with the magic hands." Mr Beecham started his muiscal career at the early age of five, when he sany treble in part-songa. Ultimately he studied the piano and composition, and, upon leaving. Oxford, founded an orchestra jdMKauTtive town of St. Helens, that he discovered that iSHHKas conducting.